St. Johns County, FL
ARCADIS is the engineer-of-record for the site construction work at the 120-acre Bartram Trail High School site in northwest St. Johns County, Florida. The 190,000 sf high school will accommodate 1,500 students. ARCADIS' site planning effort included placing the building footprint, walkways, student, faculty, and visitor parking, parent drop-off, bus loop, drivers education range, football/track stadium, baseball fields, softball fields, general use play fields, stormwater treatment facility, water and sewer utilities and wetland mitigation area. The site plan not only met the regulations set forth by the State of Florida's Educational Specifications, but was also unanimously approved by the faculty and administration of the new school as well as the St. Johns County School Board. ARCADIS was responsible for and obtained the individual permit for construction of the school from the St. Johns River Water Management District and the Army Corps of Engineers with an extremely compressed project timeline so that the school will be open for the 2000-2001 school year. Permits were obtained for the water and sewer utilities from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. The construction plans were also approved by the State Department of Education with very few comments. Additonally, ARCADIS designed and permitted the 3,000-foot access road to the school from Greenbriar Road. This effort also included individual permits from the Water Management District and Army Corps of Engineers. ARCADIS' innovative stormwater design resulted in minimal wetland impacts and a treatment system that required no collection system (i.e. ditches or culverts) and no stormwater retention pond.